Shakespeare''s Serial History Plays

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Grene is Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. Klappentext A re-reading of the two sequences of Shakespeare's English history plays. Zusammenfassung This book provides a re-reading of the two sequences of English history plays! Henry VI-Richard III and Richard II-Henry V! looking both at their original creation in the 1590s and at modern serial productions or adaptations. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Chronology of major serial productions/adaptations; Note on the texts; Introduction: Part I. The Story of the Histories: 1. Serialising the chronicles; 2. Staging the national epic; Part II. Henry VI-Richard III: 3. War imagined; 4. The emergence of character; 5. Curses and prophecies; Part III. Richard II-Henry V: 6. Looking back; 7. Hybrid histories; 8. Change and identity; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Grene
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.01.2002
• EAN: 9780521773416
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77341-6
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean